On 11 September 2012 14:22, David Fisher <djfishe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Tom Chance: Interesting. In Southwark, wards are tagged as > "boundary=administrative" rather than "boundary=political" -- presumably > this is why Nominatim picks them up? Oh, interesting, last time I looked there was an admin level for wards under administrative. I'll switch them over. More generally, I'm glad a long-time contributor/developer like yourself > has given this some thought and struggled. You ask "could you decide where > Croydon ends and Thornton Heath begins?" -- well, I could give it a good > try... but then what about other, smaller, suburbs/neighbourhoods like > Waddon, Selhurst, Addiscombe -- are they "part" of Croydon/Thornton Heath > or adjacent to it? (PS Yes, I'd seen the Dalston page before, and love it > :) ) Well, quite. The hierarchy is a bit complicated in lots of places. When I first moved to London I lived in an area called Bellenden, which is in Peckham, which is part of Southwark and then London, though many people there would probably say they live in East Dulwich. Would we create a relation for Bellenden inside Peckham so you get both in your Nominatim query? Could Peckham and East Dulwich overlap? It also depends if you're an estate agent, which train/tube station you use, which shopping street you prefer, etc. I used to variously say East Dulwich, Peckham, Peckham Rye or South Camberwell depending on whether I wanted to feel posh, edgy, who I was talking to, and so on ;-) Now I've moved down to the fun and games of places around Crystal Palace, which itself is really a fiction for social climbers. > Would you support mappers just giving it a go, based on a mixture of > postcodes/addresses/wards and local knowledge? It seems worth a go in your local area, though it would be good to get input from other metropolitan city dwellers. Any other Londoners / Brummies / Mancunians / etc have views? Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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